Example sentences of "ready [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two pins there and then she would have summoned the two black-jacketed men who stood sentry on the door every evening , ready to eject any troublemakers . |
| 2 | But Bulldog has his teeth bared and ready to sink any rival . |
| 3 | Many are sent north to guard the passes and the isles , while others remain in the cities and settlements as a standing force ready to meet any threat . |
| 4 | Well-bribed assassins — my uncle s creatures I doubt not — were marking my every move , ready to meet any show of force with greater force . |
| 5 | Our job , old Pat , is to hold a watching brief , use our eyes and ears , be ready to plug any gaps . |
| 6 | While she and Susan and Gay kept in the background , he hovered near the gate , ready to answer any questions put by the more curious of the passers-by , and the sight of his familiar figure reassured the villagers , and they began to think that there might n't be a catch in it , after all ! |
| 7 | Since registration , there have already been eight examinations , all of which were passed with flying colours , at all times , a company representative or deputy has to be on call ready to answer any questions . |
| 8 | You may say also that I think it well that the musters of the northern counties should prepare themselves for possible action against the Scots at the same date , and those along the south coast should be ready to resist any assault by sea from my enemies in Europe . |
| 9 | The head porter will have staff ready to handle any luggage . |
| 10 | The snow gave them proof of what they always feared : the winter-hungry foxes were biding their time , ready to raid any hen-house which remained unfastened at dusk . |
| 11 | The kind of friends she had were loyal by definition , and they liked her , in their eyes she was a woman who could do no wrong ( she was only separated , mind , not divorced ) , they were ready to do any thing for her and when she would not let them they did it for the girl . |
| 12 | " Wherever we settle down in the end , " thought Hazel , " I 'm determined to see that Pipkin and Fiver are n't sat on and cuffed around until they 're ready to run any risk just to get away . |
| 13 | The Japanese are not helping : they sided with the EC in Brussels because they are not ready to permit any rice imports . |
| 14 | Seal the bag with a wire ‘ twistit ’ to protect the female stigma which , in a day or two , will become sticky and thus ready to hold any pollen that touches . |
| 15 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 16 | He added that " the USSR is taking part in the joint efforts to settle the conflict in Afghanistan and in this context it is ready to maintain any contacts , including with the opposition , if they can help to solve the problem " . |
| 17 | To one side of the square the stretcher party from Headquarters and Holding Company hover ready to remove any casualties to the medical centre . |
| 18 | Three days later , the head of the Jewish community was told that a boat was docked at Yjmuiden , ready to take any Jews who wanted to go to England . |
| 19 | Hundreds of candidates were chasing every vacancy in higher education and were ready to take any place offered . |
| 20 | We are ready to take any penalty Mr Mills desires to place upon us ’ . |
| 21 | Her gaze was dark , and hinted at some impossibly deep sense of pain ; and for a moment Lucy felt a certain regret , if not shame , at the way that she seemed to be ready to manipulate any situation for whatever advantage she could get . |
| 22 | a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ . |
| 23 | I did n't believe such happiness was possible and I was ready to make any sacrifice for him . |
| 24 | Mussolini took advantage of these largely theoretical impositions to say that the League 's intention was to destroy the Italian economy and , surprising as it may seem today , the people of Italy reinforced what proved to be his growing megalomania by demonstrating , when inspired to do so by the press , that they were ready to make any sacrifices that might be asked of them . |